Latino (Hispanic) Adoption

La adopción en la comunidad Latina (Hispana)

Families of color, including Latino (Hispanic) adoptive and birth parents, are underserved in adoption. Pact works to make adoption ethical and accessible by ensuring that placement services are available to all qualified parents, including low- and middle-income families.

“As a single teacher, I was concerned about costs and my chances for adoption. When Isabella was born about nine months after I started the process, it felt like the perfect ‘adoption pregnancy.’ I am so grateful.”

For Lucas and Juanita, culture influenced every aspect of the process of adopting their daughter LuzMari. The choices this family made were shaped by their cultural experiences as an Afro-Puerto Rican and a Mexican-American. Meeting LuzMari’s birth mother, they were all able to converse in their native Spanish – creating a closeness and trust that has served as a powerful legacy for the daughter they all love so much.

“We trust this organization. They were there for us when we brought our baby home and they have been there for us over the years when new questions have arisen for the kids and our family – we love being a part of the Pact community.”

“Becoming a family was only the beginning – we became part of a whole community – the Pact family.”
"Llegar a ser una familia fue sólo el principio – nos integramos a toda una comunidad - La familia Pact"

When Tania and Genilson chose to work with Pact, they overcame their initial fear of open adoption and made it a goal because it seems like a natural extension of theirown sprawling, inclusive families. The day they met their son and his first mother, they held him and each other as they wept and chose his name, Ezra, together.